Why has the WRC gone so poor in quality

[WelshLegend]

What has happened to the good old days of having 7 works teams in 2002. Did it become to expensive to compete for smaller teams such as Hyundai etc!!!
Now i find myself falling asleep watching action from the days stages on Eurosport.
What can be done to attract these teams and others to the WRC????

Regards
WelshLegend

[Wim_Impreza]

What can be done? Simply, these dings and more:
- 12 rallies in a season and not more.
- No SSS so far away.
- Make the rallies a bit longer, so they can't cruise early on the second day to the end.
- Not much technology in the cars.
- Limited test programms.
- No split times allowed.
- ...

[grugsticles]

Pretty much every thread on this forum has some form of conversation of why the WRC is dying, and from what I can see its poor decision making and managment by the sports overseer's that is the basis of the problem.

Other than that, its money. The cost of everything is going through the roof and manufacturers just cant keep up with the financial demands, as such the sport as a whole su ffers in many ways.

[jonkka]

WRC, as almost everything in life, goes in cycles. Ten years ago it was another low-point with only three full factory teams contesting the series but only in a few years six teams more entered (Toyota 1997, Seat 1998, Skoda and Peugeot 1999, Hyundai 2000 and Citroen 2001)! At the moment, we have another low-point but with arrival of Suzuki, who knows if the next upturn is on the door.

[Corny]

but with that 3 manufactures it was very interesting!

personally, I think it also had to do with road positions, that it was so interesting by then.

[SubaruNorway]

Split times is the bigest thing thts making it boring i think, altough Henning was recomended to drive without by his mental trainer not sure if he is

[Josti]

WRC, as almost everything in life, goes in cycles. Ten years ago it was another low-point with only three full factory teams contesting the series but only in a few years six teams more entered (Toyota 1997, Seat 1998, Skoda and Peugeot 1999, Hyundai 2000 and Citroen 2001)! At the moment, we have another low-point but with arrival of Suzuki, who knows if the next upturn is on the door.

But it's not only about manufacterers this time :\

[GigiGalliNo1]

not once this weekend did i check out wrc.com

[A.F.F.]

Something is not right at this point. Back in the 90's when group-A was the top gun, privateers had the chance to get competitive machinery to rallyes without going bankruptcy. Today it's not possible and even if they get their hands on a car, it's nowhere near in the level of factory rides.

So, no black horses...

[Finni]

Most worrying thing is that they are even downgrading news-service. Wrc.com is surficial telling only self-evidents "Loeb won and then Grönholm..". No any analyses, driver comments gone for last few rallies, no any inside information about cars and crews, no rallyradio. Would that be too difficult to produce with some quality? Shouldn't be.